Key Issue # 2: Why Is Each Place on Earth Unique

A.  A __________ is a specific point on Earth distinguished by a __________________.

B.  Describing the features of a place is an essential building block for geographers to explain ____________, _____________, and _____________ across Earth.

C.  Geographers describe a feature's place on Earth by identifying its ____________ the position that something occupies on Earth's surface.

Location can be identified in three ways.
   1. ______________
      A. A ___________ is the same name given to a place on Earth.
      B. Names derived from people of prominence, religious affiliation, physical features, or origins of its settlers.

   2. ______________
      A. _________ is the _______________ of a place.
      B. Characteristics include climate, water sources, topography, soil, vegetation, latitude, and elevation.

   3. ______________
      A. ___________ is the location of a place ___________ to other places.

A.  An area on Earth defined by one or more characteristics is a __________.

B.  Most often applied at two scales
   1._______________
   2.______________

C. A region derives its unified character through the _________________- a combination of ___________, ____________, and _____________ features.
      1. "Culture is the agent, the natural area the medium, the cultural landscape is the result." -Carl O. Sauer, American Geographer.

Regions CHANGE over time.

Regions are separated from each other by a ________________.
   1. An area of ______________ where peripheries of two adjacent regions join.
   2. Marked by a ______________ (rather than a sharp break) in the characteristics that distinguish neighboring regions.
   3. Area of ____________, _____________ (i.e.cultural groups, religious groups, etc.)

Geographers identify three types of regions.
   1. ______________ (aka uniform region or homogeneous region).
      a. An area in which everyone shares in common one or more distinctive characteristics.
         * Characteristics could be a local population as language, income, or religion. Could also be physical such as elevation or climate.
         * Characteristic may be _____________ rather than _______________. 
      b. Formal regions must be ____________.
      c. Examples: ______________________

   2. _____________ (aka _________ region)
      a. An area organized around a ______ or a __________.
        * The characteristic chose to i define a functional region dominates at a ________________ or node and diminishes importance.
      b. Examples: ______________________

   3. ______________ Region (aka  _____________Region.
      A. An area that people believe exists as part of their _________________.
      B. More likely than other regions to _________________.
      C. Frequently based upon _______________, as people's definitions of perceptual regions are influenced by travel, media, reading, films, and conversations.
      D. Examples: ______________________

A.  Culture is the body of _______________, _____________, and _______________ that together constitute the _______________ of a group of people.
 
B.  Origin of word, culture, is the Latin cultus, which means "to care for".
   1. Two meanings
      a. _______________
      b. _______________

1. Culture: What People Care About
   a. Geographers study why the customary ideas, beliefs, and values of a people produce a _____________ in a ________________.
   b. Especially important cultural values derive from a group's _____________, ____________, and _____________/

2. Culture: What People Take Care Of
   a. The second element of culture of interest is production of _____________, such as food, clothing, and shelter that humans need in order to survive and thrive.